AGE, AGED, AGEING
(also see OLD)
ADJECTIVES
1000 — EVEN-OLD of the same age → obs.
1340 — FAR advanced in age or knowledge → obs.
1451 — YEARING a year old → obs.
1486 — UNAGED not of age → obs.
1547 — AGEY aged, old, characterized by age → arch.
1581 — IN YEARS aged, old → arch.
1590 — UNDER YEARS below the legal age of majority, under age → obs.
1596 — FULL-AGED of mature age
1603 — YEARED TO THIRTY thirty years of age → obs.
1619 — ELD aged, old, advanced in years → arch.
1649 — COETANEOUS of the same age, equal in age
1650 — GRANDEVAL of a great age, old, ancient
1655 — COEVOUS of the same age, equally old, having lived the same number of years → obs.
1656 — QUADRAGENARIOUS forty years
1656 — QUINQUENNIAL five years old (Bk.)
1682 — GRANDEVOUS aged, old; of great age; long-lived → obs.
1696 — OCTOGENARY of the age of eighty years
1709 — WANTING that is short of a certain age, as ‘wanting of fourteen’ → obs.
1715 — QUINQUAGENARY of fifty years of age
1727 — MAGNAEVOUS of great age → obs.
..19C — ELDERMER aged, growing old → Eng. dial.
1818 — OCTOGENARIAN of the age of eighty years
1822 — QUINQUAGENARIAN of fifty years of age; characteristic of one who is fifty years old
1827 — EILD-ENCUMBERED burdened or overcome with age → Sc.
1843 — AGE-COEVAL contemporary in age → obs.
1845 — AGEABLE advanced in years → Amer. dial.
1860 — OLD IN THE TOOTH aged, esp. used of old women
1860 — UP IN THE TOOTH aged, esp. used of old women
1895 — WANING ageing, growing old
1896 — ELDED aged, old, advanced in years → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1897 — QUADRAGENARIAN forty years old
..L19 — OF A DIZZY AGE ageing → UK society usage
1900 — ELDERMERLY aged, growing old → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1000 — ELD an age of the world, a secular period → obs.
1300 — ELD conventional or legal age; full age; majority → obs.
1400 — FURTHER AGE advanced age → obs.
1524 — LESS AGE minority → Sc. obs.
1674 — PROVEXITY greatness of age, the being well grown in years, or well studied in any art → obs.
1657 — PREVIVATION a living before another; greater age, seniority → obs.
1883 — OCTOGENARIANISM the state of being eighty years old
1885 — ANNO DOMINI advance or advancing age → colloq.
1903 — AULDNESS age → Sc.
NOUNS, PERSON
1000 — EVEN-OLD a person of the same age → obs.
1580 — BELDAM → BELDAME an aged woman, a matron of advanced years
1583 — AGEMATE a person of the same age; a contemporary → obs.
1611 — ONE-AND-TWENTY a person twenty-one years of age
1647 — HIRQUITICKE a person past 14 years of age, beginning to be moved by sexual delight (Bk.)
1722 — EELDINS → EILDINS equals in age, contemporaries, persons born in the same year → Sc.
1728 — YEALING → YEILDIN a contemporary in age → Sc.
1804 — MONTHLING a child a month old, or whose age is counted in months rather than years → obs.
1804 — YEALINS equals in age → Sc.
1815 — OCTOGENARIAN a person eighty years old
1821 — QUINQUENNARIAN a person who is five years old → obs.
1824 — SIXTEENER a youth of sixteen
1825 — EENLINS persons of equal age → Sc. obs.
1825 — SCARGIVENET a girl, from twelve to fourteen years of age → Sc. cant
1828 — OCTOGENARY a person eighty years old
1839 — QUADRAGENARIAN a person forty years of age
1843 — QUINQUAGENARIAN a person aged fifty, or between fifty and sixty
1845 — YAMAL → YAMMAL a person born in the same year as another; a contemporary → Sc.
1851 — YEAR’S-MATE a companion of the same age → Sc.
1898 — BAWKEN a lad 10 to 17 years of age → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SKIRGIFFIN a girl from twelve to fourteen years of age; a half-grown woman → Sc. sl. (Bk.)
1905 — NASEBY-CHILD an aged person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1910 — OLD FOWL an ageing, unattractive and probably overdressed woman → Aust. & W. Indies sl.
1910 — VET an old-timer, an ageing or experienced person → sl.
1940 — DAD the oldest member of a group → World War II Amer. sl.
1940 — OLD SETTLER a woman in her thirties or older → African-American sl.
1958 — CREAKER an aged or old person → Amer. dial.
1974 — BABY BOOMER a person born roughly between 1945 and 1955 → US sl.
1983 — BABY BUSTER a person born during a baby bust (a period of marked decrease in the birth rate; spec. (esp. in the US) the years c1965-75, following the post-war baby boom
1995 — MOTHER-YOUNG-GIRL an ageing woman who tries to be younger than her years → W. Indies
1999 — BOILER a woman of a certain age → Aust. sl., derogatory (Bk.)4
2005 — KRONENBURG a woman who looks a lot younger from the front than she does from behind → UK sl.
VERBS
1300 — FALL IN AGE to become advanced in years → obs.
1800 — BREAK to show signs of aging; to grow old or weak → Amer. dial.
1812 — CUT ONE’S EYETEETH to reach the age by which maturity, experience, or shrewdness should have been gained → Amer. dial.
1821 — WANE to age, to decline in vigour
1827 — OLDEN to age, to grow old, to become older in appearance or character
1896 — MAJORIZE to come of age, to attain one’s majority
1902 — LAVER to age; to look older → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — OLD MAN to age → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1986 — ACT YOUR AGE NOT YOUR SHOE SIZE to behave in a manner appropriate to your years → US sl.